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Josh Frydeberg’s brilliant (cough, cough) idea to avoid power blackouts this summer – turn off your appliances. He’s even going to send you text messages as a reminder. But only if you live in Victoria, NSW or SA. The rest of you can keep on guzzling as much power as you like.

This ‘plan’ was suggested a while ago, now Fraudenberg has convinced some of the states to go along with it. I assume you need a smart meter to take part, otherwise how would anyone know what you switched off and when you did it? What if, like me, you don’t have an air conditioner to turn off, and, like me, don’t cook hot meals on really hot days? What if you just tell Fraudenberg to get stuffed?

Wouldn’t it be better to spend all those millions on – I dunno – here’s an idea – maybe something like more renewables, ASAP?

Weekly discussion by Richard Dennis and guests on whatever he thinks is the topic of the day. Today it was will robots take our jobs and welfare payments. He likes to interview someone who he thinks is a lot further right than he is, to get a different angle, although he might not agree with them. Today it was some chap who thinks people on welfare are doing well.

The link will take you to all the podcasts since this started a few weeks ago.

Last week’s was mostly about the government’s idiotic decision to outsource and cut funding for the domestic violence hotline. It was very interesting.

I think it’s a nightmare, and not just because of its design, the way it seems to have just been dumped there without any planning and the ugly marble.

I could not use those stairs, there’s no handrail. Even fit, able-bodied people would find it terrifying. The curve makes it more dangerous, so does what seems to be a steep angle. I hope that gold door in the background is a lift, because no-\one is going to want to use this display of vulgarity.

This is what happens when someone has too much money and no brain at all.

Adani’s financing for its proposed Carmichael coalmine could face a further hurdle, with Westpac appearing to indicate it will not refinance its existing loan to Adani’s coal terminal at Abbot Point.

A recent report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (Ieefa) revealed Adani needed to refinance more than $2bn worth of loans for its Abbot Point coal terminal in the coming year – an amount that is more than it paid for the port in 2011. That means the company has negative equity on the facility – owing banks more than it is worth.

The refinancing of its port comes as the company must find $5bn of loans for its Carmichael coalmine, which every Australian bank – and many international banks – have said they will not support.